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Scientist: Cassava disease spread at alarming rate

...destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants...cassava disease is endemic along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa, affecting Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. In the...

http://juneauempire.com/michelle-faul/2013-05-08/scientist-cassava-disease-sprea
Peace corps profiles: PCV Cuadra fulfills sense of wanderlust

...places like Mexico, once on the Hopi reservation, and once I retired, I went on a trip that combined several things to East Africa. And part of that was volunteer work with Global Volunteers in Tanzania, central Tanzania." she said. "So I had...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-08-19
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More African immigrants call Alaska their home

...and polychrome head wraps as their relatives and friends took cellphone videos. Some were born in refugee camps in East Africa. Others were born at Providence Hospital in the U-Med district.The winner was a statuesque South Sudanese 13-year-old...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-08-26/more-african-immigrants-call-alaska-the
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Analysts: Somali war helped turn drought to famine

...agencies warn it will take at least $1 billion to provide emergency food, medicine and shelter for 11 million people in East Africa until the end of the year. Pictures of skeletal children and grief-stricken mothers stare out from Western newspapers...

http://juneauempire.com/abdi-guled/2011-07-21/analysts-somali-war-helped-turn-dr
Around Town

...Families and Codependent Anonymous meeting, noon-1 p.m. every Sunday, Assembly Chambers, across from Marine Park. East Africa, Adventures of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater talk with photos, 2-4:30 p.m., Mendenhall Library Meeting...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/092604/loc_aroundtown.shtml
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Alaskans eager to help victims

...Sunday's earthquake-tsunami disaster, which killed more than 117,000 people across 11 nations in southern Asia and East Africa. "There's a feeling of generosity and empathy," said Mike Smith, an official with the American Red Cross of Alaska...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/123104/sta_20041231002.shtml
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Ambitious Uganda opposition leader arrested

...arrest. A doctor who used to be Museveni's personal physician, Besigye is tapping into anger in this landlocked East Africa nation over rising food and fuel prices. Written off after the loss in the February elections, Besigye is experiencing...

http://juneauempire.com/jason-straziuso/2011-04-21/ambitious-uganda-opposition-l
After 3 years, bane to bugs is back

...12 to the case - to take back to the villages," he said. Merchants say the shortage was the result of a drought in East Africa, whose farmers supply 85 percent of pyrethrum flowers used in the product. But the mystique surrounding the powder...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060903/sta_bugstuff.shtml
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briefly

...perform in Juneau JUNEAU - The African Children's Choir, a group of children ranging in age from 6 to 11 from West and East Africa, will perform five times in Juneau between June 23-27. The choir is on tour to draw attention to the plight of more...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/061704/thi_briefly.shtml
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This Day in History

...liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime. In 1998, retaliating 13 days after the deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, U.S. forces launched cruise missile strikes against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and what was described...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082003/loc_history.shtml
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